Literature in Film 2

Subject guarantor:

Marie MRAVCOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Marie MRAVCOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Emphasis is placed on the ability to implement the literary characteristics of a verbal work, that is its analysis from the perspective of basic aspects: genre, subject matter, narrator, characters, space, time. Scriptwriting students are to be able to pose, considering the literary text, questions regarding its ability to become a film, be aware of where there will be resistance to the script transformation. In a film adaptation we learn to recognize the dramaturgical and film-image intentions of the artists (adaptors): additional shifts (style, characters, visual environment, etc.), changes and creation of the original material. A familiarity with the author of the literary work is required and with the context of the work.

Mode of study:

Instructor lead and supplemented communications (preparatory) of some course participants, to which a colloqium debate linked.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Instruction focuses on the significant literary bases in artistic prose and their film portrayal (reforming, transformation, etc.) - particularly in comparison to the written text and form with its dramatic depiction transformation (in its film version). The course program has three variants:

1. Historical - analysing the film adaptation according to canonized historical works of literature, the so called classics (Oedipus, Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Dangerious Liasons, Madame Bovary, Germinal, etc.)

2. Modernist - we select and research texts which arose in the first half of the 20th century and marked the majority of signifcant developmental impulses, or direct experiments (A Death in Venice, Swan Lake, The Trial, Orlando, Břeyový Haj, etc.)

3. Current - Literary foundations published after the Second World War are arranged and analysed (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Clockwork Orange, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Conformista, Naked Lunch, etc.)

Recommended or required reading:

Selected works of world literature

Secondary professional literature

Film adaptation

Information material about creative adaptations

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

- class participation hwoch requires a knowledge of the model of the corresponding film

- at least one paper per semester

- year's paper: an analysis of a selected literary work and identification of the adaptation intentions, or critical assessment of those intentions.

Course web page:

Note:

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu	místnost 432 Učebna KSD 432 (Lažanský palác) MRAVCOVÁ M. 16:30–18:55 ODD WEEK (přednášková par. 1) místnost 124 Projekce FAMU (Lažanský palác) MRAVCOVÁ M. 16:30–18:55 EVEN WEEK (přednášková par. 1)
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Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	16:30–18:55	MRAVCOVÁ M.	Učebna KSD 432 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1
	Thu	16:30–18:55	MRAVCOVÁ M.	Projekce FAMU Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ: Restaurování fotografie (faculty subject, optional subject)